Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 11:54 am, Erast Benson wrote:
> > Exactly. I propose to stop any GPL vs. CDDL discussions on m-l all
> > over... it doesn't do any good to us. Instead we should go to sites like
> > slashdot.org, etc with good written articles and detailed howto's on why
> > CDDL is actually better GPL.
>
> This will be discussed in Sun. I believe Sun needs to do this, and Sun legal
> needs to understand, and a Sun representative (like say, Simon Phipps;-)
> needs to educate the world.
After viewing the video from Debconf6, I can say the following:
While Simon was very informative and correct, Danese Cooper did unfortunately
claim that Sun developers did like to make the CDDL incompatible to the GPL by
intention. If you carefully watch the video, you see that Simon did not like
this but preferred not to respond in order to avoid a dispute.
Unfortunately, the total effect on the Debian people was that they remembered
the (wrong) claim from Danese but forgot about all the correct information from
Simon.
> There is nothing wrong with the CDDL.
See above, if there is a misadventure in a talk, then people forget about this
and remember what is aligned with their prejudice.
> Sun must look into why Debian is not accepting CDDL programs into free, or
> why
> they could be placing some/all in non-free. This might not be important for
> you, but it is for me and I believe it is for our community.
If Debian was smaller, I would propose to ignore them... this is unfortunately
not true.
Jörg
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